Studio: international art (53.1911)

Reviews and Notices

teachers in art schools, and representatives of indus-
try. This Standing Committee will come into exist-
ence on the ist of next month. Sir E. J. Poynter,
P.R.A., Mr. S. J. Solomon, R.A., Mr. G. Clausen,
R.A., Mr. A. S. Cope, R.A., and Mr. R. Blomfield,
A.R.A., are among the members; as also are Prof.
Selwyn Image, of Oxford, and Mr. F. V. Burridge,
of the Mount Street School, Liverpool.

The scholarships at the Slade School, which
are the most important of the prizes offered to
the students of that institution, have been
awarded to E. Kathleen Cole and C. U. Gill. These
scholarships, of ^35 a year, tenable for two years,
were founded about forty years ago under the will
of Mr. Felix Slade, to whose munificent bequests we
owe also the Professorships of Fine Art at Oxford
and Cambridge. The list of the winners of Slade
Scholarships during the past forty years include
the names of many men and women who subse-
quently gained distinction in the world of art.

Landscapes were the principal features of the
recent exhibition of the Gilbert Garret Sketch
Club, held at 3 Great Ormond Street. Most of
the landscapes on the walls were apparently
studies from nature made in the open air, and the
average quality was perhaps higher than that of
any preceding exhibition of the club. Mr. H. M.
Wilson showed a capital painting of a Kentish
village; and Mr. J. R. Dunning several clever little
water-colours. One of the strongest exhibitors was
Miss Uellina Parkes, who won a prize in the com-
petition noticed in this column in January, and the
exhibition also contained contributions of interest
from Mr. A. E. Cox, Mr. E. V. Pearce, Mr. P.
Smyth, and others. W. T. W.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES

The Herkomers. By Sir Hubert von Herkomer,
C.V.O., R.A., D.C.L., LL.D., &c. Vol. II.
(London : Macmillan and Co. Ltd.) js. 6d.
net.—In the first volume of this remarkable book
Sir Hubert von Herkomer sought, as he expresses
it in the introduction to the second volume, " to
fulfil a duty : to let others know what a father had
done for his son, the moral and educational in-
fluences he brought to bear on his life, under
circumstances certainly trying, if not unusual " ;
and this duty he certainly fulfilled with the amplest
measure of filial respect and affection. The
second volume is mainly devoted to a record of
Sir Hubert's own achievements, to an account of
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the successes by which he justified his father's
belief in the capacities of the son whose early life
was so tenderly watched over, and whose youthful
enthusiasms were so wisely directed. This record
is extraordinary in its revelation of the inexhaustible
energy of a man who, hampered throughout his
life by ill-health and dependent on his own
exertions only to make his way in the world, has
won for himself a dominating position in modern
art, and has held it surely for many years by the
sheer strength of his personality. Few writers of
autobiographies have had so unquestionable a right
to put themselves before the public, and fewer
still, it may be said, have been able to give an
account of themselves and their doings which can
be accepted so unreservedly as instructive in
matter and interesting in manner. For Sir Hubert
possesses in the highest degree that rare gift, the
power of accurate and dispassionate self-analysis.
He dissects himself with amazing skill, and he puts
his finger with singular directness upon both the
virtues and the defects of his temperament; and
he appraises both his successes and his failures
always at exactly their right value. As a study of
a personality the book is wholly fascinating, as a
contribution to contemporary art history it is of
memorable importance, but most of all, perhaps, it
deserves to live for the moral lesson it conveys.
Assuredly no believer in self-help could read it
without being stimulated and encouraged by the
magnificent confidence which inspires it throughout
—a confidence which, if it carries, as Sir Hubert
says, "necessarily a note of egotism," is com-
mendably free from conceit.

A History of Painting in Italy. By J. A.
Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle. Edited by Langton
Douglas assisted by G. de Nicola. (London:
John Murray.) Vol. IV. 21J. net.—The fact
that a complete, new and copiously illustrated
edition of Crowe and Cavalcaselle's History has
recently appeared, edited and supplemented with
numerous notes by the able art critic and his-
torian, Mr. Edward Hutton, must necessarily
militate against the cordiality of the reception of
the somewhat belated rival publication for which
the equally competent Mr. Langton Douglas is
responsible. A careful comparison of the four
volumes of the latter which have so far been issued
with the corresponding section of the former will,
however, show that they are to some extent supple-
mentary of each other, certain facts having been
brought into prominence by one editor which have
been passed over by the other. Mr. Douglas
notes, for instance, that the so-called Transit of